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Seira Lubbock 1870

  • 1. Laboratory of Collembola, Department of Botany and Zoology, Biosciences Center, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Highway BR- 101, Lagoa Nova, Campus Universitario, 59072 - 970, Natal, RN, Brazil. & Biodiversity and Biotechnology Research Group of North Center Piaui, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piaui, Pedro II, Piaui, Brazil.
  • 2. Laboratory of Soil Invertebrate Systematics and Ecology, National Institute of Amazonian Research-INPA, CPEN, Manaus, Brazil nikolasgc @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7594 - 9574
  • 3. Laboratory of Collembola, Department of Botany and Zoology, Biosciences Center, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Highway BR- 101, Lagoa Nova, Campus Universitario, 59072 - 970, Natal, RN, Brazil. & entobellini @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7881 - 9436

Description

Genus Seira Lubbock, 1870

Diagnosis. Antennae shorter than body. Coarsely ribbed and ciliated scales, oval or elongated and apically rounded (rarely truncate, pointed or irregular) present on dorsal body, ventral head and appendages. Apically strongly ciliated macrochaetae, apically foot-shaped or acuminate, present on dorsal body. Dorsal chaetotaxy moderately plurimacrochaetotic. Eyes 8+8. Four prelabral chaetae ciliated, rarely smooth; labral formula as 4 (a1–2), 5 (m0–2), 5 (p0–2) smooth chaetae. Four labral papillae (inner and outer) present. Th. II normal, not projected anteriorly. Th. II–Abd. V with ms and sens formulae as 1,0|1,0,1,0,0 and 1,1|0,2,2,+,3, respectively; Abd. II–IV bothriotricha formula as: 2 (a5, m2), 3 (a5, m2, m5), 3 (T2, T4, D3) (except in S. rowani Yosii, 1959, with 2 bothriotricha on Abd. IV); bothriotricha with spear-shaped accessory chaetae. Males of few species with sexual dimorphism consisting in the presence of a stout spiny mac on femur I and tibiotarsus I (Palearctic species). Ungues lateral teeth normal, rarely enlarged. Pretarsus with a small smooth chaeta in anterior and posterior faces. Manubrial plate and dorsal dens devoid of modified blunt macrochaetae. Falcate mucro, without the basal spine (adapted from Cipola et al. 2018; Godeiro et al. 2020).

Notes

Published as part of Nunes, Rudy Camilo, Cipola, Nikolas Gioia & Bellini, Bruno Cavalcante, 2021, Two new species of Seira Lubbock, 1870 (Collembola: Entomobryidae: Seirinae) from Brazilian Caatinga, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 5048 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5048.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5549080

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Entomobryidae
Genus
Seira
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Entomobryomorpha
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lubbock
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Seira Lubbock, 1870 sec. Nunes, Cipola & Bellini, 2021

References

  • Lubbock, J. (1870) Notes on the Thysanura. Part IV. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 27, 277 - 297. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1870. tb 00214. x
  • Yosii, R. (1959) Collembolan fauna of Cape Province with special reference to the genus Seira Lubbock. Biological Results of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, 6, 3 - 23. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 176436
  • Cipola, N. G., Arbea, J., Baquero, E., Jordana, R., Morais, J. W. & Bellini, B. C. (2018) The survey of Seira Lubbock, 1870 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Seirinae) from Iberian Peninsula and Canary Islands, including three new species. Zootaxa, 4458 (1), 1 - 66. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4458.1.1
  • Godeiro, N. N., Pacheco, G., Liu, S., Cipola, N. G., Berbel-Filho, W. M., Zhang, F., Gilbert, M. T. P. & Bellini, B. C. (2020) Phylogeny of Neotropical Seirinae (Collembola, Entomobryidae) based on mitochondrial genomes. Zoologica Scripta, 49 (3), 329 - 339. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / zsc. 12408